How can anybody go on all day long, and never see how good He is, and never look up and bless Him?  Most especially on bright pleasant days, when He giveth us more even than usual to enjoy!  “He giveth.”  Not one single pleasant thing, not one single bit of enjoyment comes to us but what He giveth.  We can not get it, we do not earn it, we do not deserve it; but He giveth lovingly, and kindly, and freely.  Suppose He stopped giving, what would become of us?

“Richly.”  So richly, that if you tried to write down half His gifts to you, your hand would be tired long before you had done.  You might easily make a list of the presents given you on your birthday, but you could not make a list of what God gives you every day of your life.

“All things.”  All the things you really need, and a great many more besides.  All the things that will do you good, a great many more than you would ever have thought of.  All the things that He can fill your little hands with, and trust you to carry without stumbling and falling. All things, everything that you have at all!

“To enjoy.”  Now how kind this is! not only “to do us good,” but “to enjoy.”  So you see He means you to be happy with what He gives you, to smile and laugh and be glad, not to be dismal and melancholy.  If you do not enjoy what He “giveth,” that is your own fault, for He meant you to enjoy it.  Look up to Him with a bright smile, and thank Him for having given you richly all things to enjoy!

    “My joys to Thee I bring,
      The joys Thy love hath given,
    That each may be a wing
      To lift me nearer heaven. 
    I bring them, Saviour, all to Thee,
    For Thou hast purchased all for me.”

12.  Twelfth Day.

Much more than this.

   “The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.”—­2 Chron. xxv. 9.

Amaziah, king of Judah, was going to war against the Edomites.  He thought he would make sure of victory by hiring a hundred thousand soldiers from the King of Israel, and he paid them beforehand a hundred talents, which was about L34,218.15s. of our money.  But a man of God warned him not to let the army of Israel go with him, for Israel had forsaken the Lord, and so He was not with them.  It seemed a great pity to waste all that money, and so Amaziah said, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?  And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.”  So Amaziah simply obeyed, and sent the soldiers away, and trusted God to help him to do without them.  Was it any wonder that he gained a great victory over the Edomites?